Generate practice quizzes from any study material
Cognitive science calls it the testing effect: taking quizzes builds stronger memory than re-reading ever will. Active Recalling writes the quiz for you — from your own notes, PDFs, articles, and videos.
Practice testing is one of the highest-rated study techniques in the learning science literature, yet almost nobody does it — because writing good quiz questions about your own material is slow, and finding ready-made quizzes that match your exact syllabus is nearly impossible.
Active Recalling's AI quiz generator solves both problems. Add your actual study material to a chapter and the AI writes multiple-choice questions with four answer options each, targeted at the concepts in that material — not a generic question bank.
Your quiz attempts are tracked in revision history, so you can see which topics you've mastered and which ones need another pass. Combine the quizzes with the same chapter's flashcards and mindmap for a complete active recall workflow.
How the AI quiz generator works
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Add your material
Upload a PDF or doc, paste an article URL, or add a YouTube video to a chapter. The full text is extracted automatically.
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Generate the quiz
The AI reads your chapter and writes multiple-choice questions — four options each — covering the concepts that actually matter in the material.
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Test yourself and track progress
Take the quiz cold, get instant feedback, and retake it over spaced intervals. Revision history keeps track of every session so you can watch weak topics become strong ones.
Practice testing without the busywork
Questions from your material
Quizzes are generated from the exact PDF, article, doc, or video you're studying — not from a generic subject question bank.
Multiple-choice with 4 options
Each question includes plausible distractors, forcing genuine discrimination between concepts instead of easy pattern-matching.
Revision history
Every quiz session is saved, so you can review past attempts and see your accuracy improve over time.
Retake to reinforce
Repeated testing at spaced intervals is the core of durable learning. Reset and retake chapter quizzes whenever you want another retrieval rep.
Flashcards and mindmaps too
Every chapter can also generate a flashcard deck and an interactive mindmap, so you can rehearse the same material in multiple formats.
Free to start
One folder with three chapters on the free plan. Pro ($3.99/month) unlocks unlimited folders and chapters.
Frequently asked questions
How does the AI quiz generator work?
You add study material — a PDF, doc, web article, or YouTube video — to a chapter. Active Recalling extracts the text and uses AI to write multiple-choice questions with four answer options based on that content. You take the quiz in the app and your results are saved to revision history.
Is the AI quiz generator free?
Yes. The free plan includes one folder with up to three chapters, and every chapter can generate quizzes, flashcards, and a mindmap. Pro removes the limits for $3.99/month.
Why are quizzes better than re-reading?
This is the testing effect, one of the most replicated findings in cognitive psychology. Retrieving an answer from memory strengthens that memory far more than passively reviewing it. Students who self-test consistently outperform students who re-read the same material for the same amount of time.
Can I make a quiz from a YouTube video?
Yes. Add the YouTube video to a chapter and Active Recalling extracts the transcript, then generates quiz questions from what the video actually covers.
What subjects does it work for?
Any subject with source material you can upload — science courses, history, law, medicine, programming, professional certifications. The questions come from your content, so the quiz always matches your syllabus.
Can I retake quizzes?
Yes, and you should. Each chapter's questions can be reset and retaken, and spacing those retakes out over days or weeks is exactly how practice testing produces long-term retention.